Wyclef Jean Quotes
When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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How does one get bored of life?
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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We have to create a range, and we have to let there be possibilities. And basically, by showing there are different types of people, you write down the monolith. You stop having to represent for all black people when you allow there to be different types represented.
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Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.
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There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.
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Life is full of acceptance and rejection. Unfortunately, many of us focus on the rejection. Yoga tells us it’s more useful to practice swaha, the idea of which is do the best you can, and let go of the rest. Tibetan Buddhists often translate swaha as “so be it.” Swaha is the rudder that can help us maintain equilibrium.
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When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
